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Accounting system, accounting client and method for reporting accounting information of a user by an accounting client

Title: Accounting system, accounting client and method for reporting accounting information of a user by an accounting client

Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Claims

The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20090164355, Accounting system, accounting client and method for reporting accounting information of a user by an accounting client.

What is claimed is:

1. A method for reporting accounting information of a user by an accounting client comprising: correlating, by the accounting client, the accounting information of all service streams established by the user; generating an accounting packet based on a user granularity; and reporting the accounting packet to an accounting server.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the user granularity comprises an IP session granularity.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the correlating, by the accounting client, the accounting information of all service streams established by the user and the generating the accounting packet based on the user granularity comprises: correlating, by the accounting client, a user data record of each of the service streams established by the user according to a user identity (ID), acquiring the accounting information of all of the service streams established by the user, and generating the accounting packet based on the user granularity.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the user ID comprises an IP address of the user.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the IP address comprises one of an Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) address and an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the accounting packet comprises a user data record, and the user data record comprises at least: a status, a type, record correlators, user information, and time.

7. The method according to claim 2, wherein the accounting packet comprises a user data record, and the user data record comprises at least: a status, a type, record correlators, user information, and time.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the user data record in the accounting packet further comprises one or more of access network information, layer 3 (L3) statistical information, and over-the-air (OTA) statistical information.

9. The method according to claim 6, wherein the record correlators comprise an accounting session identifier and an accounting multi-session identifier.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the accounting packet comprises an accounting start request and an accounting stop request.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the accounting packet comprises an interim accounting request.

12. An accounting client comprising an accounting packet generating module and a transmitting module wherein: the accounting packet generating module is adapted to correlate accounting information of all service streams established by a user, generate an accounting packet based on a user granularity, and transmit the generated accounting packet to the transmitting module; and the transmitting module is adapted to transmit the accounting packet from the accounting packet generating module to an accounting server.

13. The accounting client according to claim 12, further comprising a user data record (UDR) correlating module, wherein the UDR correlating module is adapted to correlate the accounting information in a user data record of each of the service streams established by the user according to a user identity, and provide the correlated accounting information to the accounting packet generating module; and the accounting packet generating module is adapted to generate the accounting packet based on the user granularity according to the accounting information from the UDR correlating module.

14. An accounting server comprising an accounting packet receiving module and an accounting information acquiring module wherein: the accounting packet receiving module is adapted to receive an accounting packet based on a user granularity generated by correlating accounting information of all service streams established by a user; and the accounting information acquiring module is adapted to acquire the accounting information of the user according to the accounting packet.

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